Authors & Headliners

Ben Ladouceur is a writer living in Ottawa. His first collection of poems, Otter (Coach House Books), was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best debut poetry collection in Canada. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Walrus, The Awl, Prairie Fire, Open Book and many other magazines. He edits prose for Arc Poetry Magazine.